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On August 10, 2019, a conference took place in Lisbon, Portugal that brought together several of Europe’s most notorious far-right and neo-Nazi movements. The event, which was attended by approximately 70 people, included speakers from extremists movements in Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Poland and Bulgaria. Among the most notable far-right speakers were Matthias Deyda, a representative for the German far-right minority party Die Rechte (“The Right”), Yvan Benedetti, a member of the Nationalist Party of France, and Blagovest Asenov, the leader of Bulgaria’s infamous neo-Nazi group known as the National Resistance. Asenov an ultranationalist linked to the international neo-Nazi organization Blood and Honour has used his National Resistance group to target ethnic minorities in Bulgaria, including Turks, Roma, Armenians and the Jewish community. He also pledged to protect Bulgaria from “foreign ideologies” such as parliamentary democracy, ....
Neo-Nazis dressed in paramilitary uniforms participating in the annual Lukov March in Sofia. Photo: Reuters/Pierre Marsaut. The authorities in Bulgaria have won praise from Jewish groups for banning a pro-fascist march in the capital Sofia for the second year running. First held in Sofia in 2003, the Lukov March annually has drawn neo-Nazis from elsewhere in Europe to Sofia in tribute to Gen. Hristo Lukov, who led the fascist Union of Bulgarian National Legions in the 1930s until his assassination in Feb. 1943. Successfully banned in 2020, the February 13, 2021, Lukov March was again the subject of a banning order by Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandukova. Police prevented a large-scale procession going ahead, though wreaths were laid outside Lukov’s house in central Sofia during last Saturday’s march, the ....
Praise has come in for the banning of the “Lukov March” in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia, an event held in tribute to a pro-Nazi Bulgarian general who led the fascist Union of Bulgarian National Legions in the 1930s up till his assassination in the 1940s. First held in Sofia in 2003, the Lukov March annually has drawn neo-Nazis from elsewhere in Europe to Bulgaria’s capital to join in a torchlight procession in honour of Lukov, whom local extremists falsely seek to portray as a patriotic hero. Successfully banned in 2020, the February 13 2021 event again was the subject of a banning order by Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandukova. Police prevented a large-scale procession going ahead, though wreaths were laid outside Lukov’s house in central Sofia. ....
SEVERAL dozen anti-fascists rallied in Sofia on Saturday in protest against a far-right commemoration of pro-Nazi World War II general Hristo Lukov. Neonazis have held rallies in honour of Lukov, the head of the fascist and anti-semitic Union of Bulgarian National Legions from 1932-43, since 2003 on February 13, the anniversary of his 1943 assassination by communist partisans Ivan Burudzhiev and Violeta Yakova, the latter of whom was hunted down and executed aged just 21 the following year. This year’s rally was prohibited but far-right militants gathered in Sofia to lay flowers at Lukov’s former house, with police facilitating their doing so in small groups because of Covid restrictions. Many bore flaming torches as carried at Nazi rallies, and now at marches organised by Ukrainian fascists honouring Nazi collaborators such as Stepan Bandera. ....